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mammisi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mam-misi
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god

Etymology

Borrowed from French mammisi, a neologism coined by Jean-François Champollion as if from Bohairic Coptic *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (*mam̀misi) (a term otherwise unattested), from ⲙⲁ (ma, “place”) + ⲛ̀- (ǹ-, “of”) + ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (misi, “birth”) as a calque of earlier Egyptian pr-ms (“mammisi”, literally “house of birth”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mammisis (plural)

Questions

What does mammisi mean?
a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god
Where does mammisi come from?
It is traced to Egyptian.

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